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TIL there is a 2001 Volvo stuck on a tiny island in Ottawa, Illinois

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BrOey TIL, In 1325, two Italian city-states fought over a bucket which resulted in 2,000 deaths. It started when two soldiers stole a bucket from a well from the city center. This is called The Battle of Zappolino (also known as the War of the Oaken Bucket)
x60v0 TIL about Capt. Ben Salomon, a US Army dentist who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for defending wounded soldiers from hundreds of Japanese attackers at the Battle of Saipan (1944)
LkbgZ TIL more people climbed Mt Everest than the number of people who ran a mile in under 4 minutes
p64G TIL one person has made 47,000 edits to Wikipedia to correct a single grammatical error: the misuse of the phrase “comprised of”
grAg7 TIL the 'Longest' word has 189,819 letters and takes three hours to pronounce